Girl name#345 of girl names
Scarlett
Pronounced S K AA1 R L IH0 T (ARPABET)
- 2 syllables
- Peaked 2017
- 88 years in use
How popular is Scarlett?
Scarlett is a girls' name, and first appears in 1937. It has been given to 106,165 children — the 345th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: roughly twice as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2017, when 7,734 children were given it.
Characteristics
- 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- S K AA1 R L IH0 T
- Stress pattern:
- 10
- Syllables:
- 2
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Scarlett
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Scarlett
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Scarlett?
- Scarlett ranks 345th among girls' names in US records, with 106,165 births since 1937. Over the past decade it accounts for 69,588.
- Is Scarlett a unisex name?
- No. Scarlett is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Scarlett most popular?
- 2017, when 7,734 children were given the name. It has been in use for 88 years and is still recorded as of 2024.